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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2018-05-12 00:33:10 +0300
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2018-06-12 04:59:29 +0300
commit670ae9caaca467ea1bfd325cb2a5c98ba87f94ad (patch)
treefa217f1338634e7f9d0955193d66445cd78740a6 /drivers/vhost
parent55e49dc43a835b19567e62142cb1c87dc7db7b3c (diff)
downloadlinux-670ae9caaca467ea1bfd325cb2a5c98ba87f94ad.tar.xz
vhost: fix info leak due to uninitialized memory
struct vhost_msg within struct vhost_msg_node is copied to userspace. Unfortunately it turns out on 64 bit systems vhost_msg has padding after type which gcc doesn't initialize, leaking 4 uninitialized bytes to userspace. This padding also unfortunately means 32 bit users of this interface are broken on a 64 bit kernel which will need to be fixed separately. Fixes: CVE-2018-1118 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reported-by: syzbot+87cfa083e727a224754b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/vhost')
-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/vhost.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index f0be5f35ab28..9beefa6ed1ce 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -2345,6 +2345,9 @@ struct vhost_msg_node *vhost_new_msg(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, int type)
struct vhost_msg_node *node = kmalloc(sizeof *node, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!node)
return NULL;
+
+ /* Make sure all padding within the structure is initialized. */
+ memset(&node->msg, 0, sizeof node->msg);
node->vq = vq;
node->msg.type = type;
return node;